Lucas seminar
> A bit of shock and awe, a touch of humor, a little sleigh of hand, and the audience will feel good about it if you validate a preconception or two. A good writer/seminar speaker presents a show rather than a lesson plan.
Yes, that's the New Paradigm! The beauty part is that with the emphasis on the Elvis aspects of the seminar: a curl of the lip, a soulful look, and a grind of the hip, actually knowing the subject matter is secondary. My favorite example is the fellow from Maine who showed up at one Texas conference to speak on the subject of "Adverse Possession in Texas". He launched into his talk which rambled hither and yon but had nothing in it about Texas adverse possession cases. All was revealed when about three-quarters of the way though he stated that he actually hadn't studied the Texas statutes or Texas cases, that he was speaking more generally.
I think that most seminar speakers recognize that their audiences have come to expect so little that all they need to do is deliver a couple of nuggets of what seem like useful ideas (that possibly don't even have to have anything to do with their topic) and the attendees will consider that they got something out of it.
